Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever an accomplished hostess, who had had many admirers-among them William Gibbs McAdoo and the late Senator Thomas J. Walsh-she turned her talents to entertaining. At her home, "Uplands" on Foxhall Road her Sunday night entertainments featured the political lions of Washington. There, on spring evenings, looking across the lawns towards the lights of the Potomac's bridges and the distant dome of the Capitol, she has entertained nearly every Democratic Senator in the Capitol, all the important Ambassadors and many another bigwig, taking particular delight in pitting conservatives and liberals, such as Justice Roberts and Heywood...
...adherents would be victorious, thus restoring him to complete power over Zion. Then, one morning, Overseer Voliva directed his chauffeur to drive him past Shiloh Tabernacle, the rambling frame structure built by Zion's Founder John Alexander Dowie, in which the Passion Play was being performed every Sunday. To his horror, black smoke "in five different and widely separated places" was billowing out of the Tabernacle and Overseer Voliva later said he heard 15 explosions. Zion's head theocrat frantically summoned firemen. Le Roy Peacy, the salesman who was Christus in the Passion Play, rescued his costume...
...Easter Sunday blew wintry cold in New York. Chilled photographers of the Fifth Avenue fashion parade swung their cameras in despair at such finery as winter overcoats did not conceal. Managing editors by mid-afternoon were groaning over the results, wondering what they could scrape up to decorate Monday morning's paper. At 3: 3O they knew...
...sole responsibility, called a consultation regarding Pius XI's physical state. Vatican workers hung 50-ft. velvet curtains about the high altar of St. Peter's, erected wooden partitions on the basilica's outside balcony to cut off drafts. Within St. Peter's on Easter Sunday morning 50,000 faithful cried "Viva il Papa" when the Holy Fatrrer was borne in on his portable throne, walked a few steps to the altar throne. .During Mass, celebrated by Gennaro Cardinal Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte, the Pope knelt unassisted during the Consecration and Elevation of the Host...
...organist at St. Mary's in Liibeck, Dietrich Buxtehude held one of the best music posts in Germany. Listeners came from all over to hear his Abendmusiken, fertilely imagined concerts given on the five Sunday evenings before Christmas. For these concerts St. Mary's published the first program books in history...